$188,100 penalty for underpaying trolley pushers

A former company director and his operations manager have
been penalised a total of $188,100 for their role in underpaying
10 Adelaide trolley collectors
more than $220,000.

The penalty, handed down by Justice Anthony Besanko in the
Federal Court, ends more than five years of action by the Fair Work
Ombudsman to uphold the workplace rights of trolley collectors in
the Coles supply chain in Adelaide.

Starlink director Nidal Albarouki and operations general
manager Clency Ferriere each have been penalised $94,050 for their
part in sub-contracting arrangements which short-changed vulnerable
overseas trolley collectors over 18 months.

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